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A passion for community advocacy led Abby Nick ’24 to serve as the “Get Out the Vote” coordinator for the Hartford Votes Coalition leading up to the 2023 municipal election on November 7. Nick has been working since May for the nonpartisan organization with a mission to increase voter engagement in the city of Hartford.

A new study by researchers at Trinity College and Carnegie Mellon University found pet ownership was associated with better mental health during the pandemic, but only among people who had a romantic partner.

While Trinity College's Boardman Hall of Natural History has been gone fifty years, portions of the world-class collection once housed there continue to be used in the education of students. Professor Daniel Blackburn wants to ensure that continues.

See an early illustration of witches flying through the air at the Watkinson Witching Hour on Halloween. Librarians invite the community to celebrate the holiday by glimpsing the evolution of ideas about witches and other scary characters within the collection.

Construction on the $30.1 million project is slated for the end of 2023, with the goal of continuing to raise funding for the structure and complete the work in the spring of 2025..

Bicentennial Fall Weekend attracted hundreds of alumni and family members to campus October 13 to 15 to celebrate with former classmates and current students. The weekend kicked off with sold-out performances of a madcap music, dance, and circus show, followed by a full slate of athletics matches waged by the fall teams.

Trinity is among 110 higher education institutions nationwide—and the only one from Connecticut—to receive the 2023 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award.

A multi-generational cast of Trinity College students and faculty, local high school students, and professional artists will perform on October 13 and 14, in celebration of Trinity’s 200th anniversary.

Since a long-ago alumnus first proclaimed Trinity's mascot, the Bantam has appeared in many forms. Awards, pins, posters, toys, T-shirts, and art have depicted the barnyard bird. But, by far the crowd favorite is the costumed mascot that attends campus events such as the upcoming Bicentennial Fall Weekend.

A new virtual art gallery created by Associate Professor of English David Sterling Brown ’06 encourages discussions of race and racial representation, as seen through the plays of William Shakespeare.